Jessika
#11,932 for girls in 2025, 7 births
- Peak · girls
- 1990 · 378 births
- Debut · girls
- 6 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 5,969since 1968
Jessika over time
Rank among girls' names. Jessika has never cracked the top 500 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | |
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| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #11,932 | 7 |
| 2024 | #15,293 | 5 |
| 2023 | #13,462 | 6 |
| 2022 | #10,383 | 9 |
| 2021 | — | |
| 2020 | #8,953 | 11 |
| 2019 | #6,698 | 17 |
| 2018 | #9,806 | 10 |
| 2017 | #6,044 | 20 |
| 2016 | #6,663 | 18 |
| 2015 | #5,127 | 26 |
| 2014 | #4,269 | 34 |
| 2013 | #4,422 | 32 |
| 2012 | #3,419 | 47 |
| 2011 | #3,092 | 54 |
| 2010 | #2,803 | 62 |
| 2009 | #2,800 | 63 |
| 2008 | #2,887 | 61 |
| 2007 | #2,394 | 79 |
| 2006 | #2,248 | 85 |
| 2005 | #1,878 | 103 |
| 2004 | #2,044 | 89 |
| 2003 | #2,033 | 88 |
| 2002 | #1,493 | 127 |
| 2001 | #1,476 | 127 |
| 2000 | #1,150 | 176 |
| 1999 | #1,143 | 171 |
| 1998 | #963 | 213 |
| 1997 | #894 | 225 |
| 1996 | #885 | 223 |
| 1995 | #740 | 276 |
| 1994 | #791 | 258 |
| 1993 | #729 | 290 |
| 1992 | #673 | 327 |
| 1991 | #688 | 311 |
| 1990 | #599 | 378 |
| 1989 | #730 | 270 |
| 1988 | #701 | 272 |
| 1987 | #669 | 278 |
| 1986 | #933 | 170 |
| 1985 | #981 | 156 |
| 1984 | #1,137 | 120 |
| 1983 | #1,411 | 83 |
| 1982 | #1,399 | 87 |
| 1981 | #1,423 | 86 |
| 1980 | #1,552 | 75 |
| 1979 | #1,645 | 68 |
| 1978 | #1,781 | 57 |
| 1977 | #1,717 | 60 |
| 1976 | #1,912 | 47 |
| 1975 | #2,456 | 32 |
| 1974 | #2,396 | 32 |
| 1973 | #4,155 | 14 |
| 1972 | #4,793 | 11 |
| 1971 | #5,543 | 9 |
| 1970 | #5,818 | 8 |
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| 1968 | #6,246 | 6 |
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The first year at least five girls were named Jessika! It came in at #6,246, and was given to 6 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1969, when fewer than 5 girls a year got the name.
Where Jessika is popular in 2002
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Arizona#814 · 1 in 4,637
- Pennsylvania#871 · 1 in 6,907
- California#1,136 · 1 in 8,909
- Texas#1,222 · 1 in 9,173
- Florida#1,222 · 1 in 9,627
Best ever in a state: #215 in Utah, 1989.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| Arizona | #814 | 7 | 1 in 4,637 |
| Pennsylvania | #871 | 8 | 1 in 6,907 |
| California | #1,136 | 25 | 1 in 8,909 |
| Florida | #1,222 | 8 | 1 in 9,627 |
| Texas | #1,222 | 17 | 1 in 9,173 |
| Georgia | #1,322 | 5 | 1 in 9,681 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the girls born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Jessika
- 3,361 spots since 2024 (#15,293 → #11,932)
- 2,979 spots since 2020 (#8,953 → #11,932)
- 6,805 spots since 2015 (#5,127 → #11,932)
- Biggest jump: 264 spots in 1987 (#933 → #669)
- Biggest drop: 180 spots in 1999 (#963 → #1,143)
- Debuted 1968
- Peaked 1990 at #599 (378 births)
- Births halved by 1999, 9 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 14 yrs · run 1985–1998
- Highest: 1 in 5,023 girls born in 1990 were named Jessika (0.02%)
- Latest: 1 in 229,610 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 44.8% of all girls named Jessika (2,672) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 6 | #6,246 (1968) | #6,246 |
| 1970s | 338 | #1,645 (1979) | #3,222 |
| 1980s | 1,597 | #669 (1987) | #1,094 |
| 1990s | 2,672 | #599 (1990) | #811 |
| 2000s | 998 | #1,150 (2000) | #2,040 |
| 2010s | 320 | #2,803 (2010) | #5,234 |
| 2020s | 38 | #8,953 (2020) | #12,005 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Jessika in 2002
Top girls' names in 2002
More about 2002
girls
1,796,882 girls got a published name in 2002; 1 in 14,149 of them was named Jessika, which outranked 91.7% of the 18,086 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 9.6% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #1,483Naya128
- #1,483Serina128
- #1,483Soleil128
- #1,493Jessika127
- #1,493Ania127
- #1,493Ayah127
- #1,493Raelynn127
- #1,500Adelina126
- #1,500Edna126
- #1,500Elianna126
Tied with 6 names at #1,493; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.